To honor the life of comedy legend Gene Wilder – who passed away Monday due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, at the age of 83 – two of the comedian’s most celebrated movies are getting the revival treatment at movie theaters this weekend. AMC Theaters will screen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Blazing … More —

Troma Entertainment has acquired the action-horror-comedy film Hectic Knife, directed by Greg DeLiso. The new acquisition will be celebrated with a New York City rooftop screening premiere in Brooklyn at Our Wicked Lady on July 28th, 2016 as a pre-party fundraising event for TromaDance, Troma’s Film Festival which runs the weekend of July 29th. A … More —

Kino Lorber has announced the upcoming release of Pioneers of African-American Cinema, a monumental five-disc set representing the significant but long-overlooked achievements of early, independent African-American filmmakers. Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called “race films” that flourished in the 1920s through the 40s. Unlike the “black cast” films … More —

Filmmaker Dan O’Bannon (Alien, Lifeforce) puts an uproarious spin on the zombie apocalypse movie in 1985’s cult classic The Return of the Living Dead, starring Clu Gulager (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge), James Karen (Mulholland Drive) and Don Calfa (Weekend at Bernie’s). Considered one of the campiest undead romps of its time, … More —

Tomorrow, December 12th, Videology in Brooklyn, New York will host a free screening of Troma’s comedic slasher film, Fear Town, USA, according to Troma Entertainment President and creator of The Toxic Avenger, Lloyd Kaufman. Fear Town, USA is directed by Brandon Bassham, director of The Slashening and a contributing writing to both Saturday Night Live … More —

Many consider the 1980s a golden age of cult horror. The decade gave film fans some of the most terrifying, hard-to-kill bad guys in cinema history, including Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger and the titular demon of PUMPKINHEAD – the rise of the villain-as-hero is one reason ’80s horror films remain such bloody fun. I’ll never … More —

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When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too! By: Robert McCall, Denzel Washington as Robert McCall says this to Marton Csokas' character Teddy, in Antoine Fuqua film The Equalizer, based on the 1980's television series of the same name. McCall had just dispatched yet another group of Russian gangsters that […]

Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen! By: Private Hudson, Bill Paxton as Private Hudson in James Cameron's 1986 sci-fi epic Aliens. Hudson - while doing a satellite sweep - thinks he's found a group of missing colonists on a mining colony set on a distant moon. What he actually found were incubated and/or […]